Christopher Truby

  General Notes:

Christopher and his wife came to America on the ship Brittania of London, Michael Franklin was the Master, from Rotterdam September 21,1731. (PA Archives-Section 11, Vol 2, Page 297.) They came form Switzerland near the border of France in the region near the source of the Rhine. The Truby family fled from France in 1685. They were Hugonauts. Christopher's naturalization took place in Philadelphia in 1740. He lived and reared his family in Hilltown Township in Bucks County, PA, where he had taken up land and he died there in 1753. He and his wife held membership in the old Tohickon Lutheran and Reformed Church, of which no records were kept until 1748. After 1750, records in the Church of the Truby family were found. Tohickon is on the Bethlehem Road, 34 miles north of Philadelphia, near the Tohickon Creek. Oldest deed of primitive log structure is dated 1733 and probably this first church was built about that time. In 1738 to 1743 a large number of French Hugenots and Palatinate with some Swiss and Germans settled in the vicinity of the Church. The Tohickon Church was called the six-sided Church. Christopher and his wife Maria are buried in the old Tohickon Church Cemetery.
Documented name was Christofall Trubar.

Christopher married Maria Catherine. (Maria Catherine was born in 1702 in Switzerland and was buried in Tohickon Church Cemetery, North Of Philadelphia, PA.)